I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness"- Stacey Michaels

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.